Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-12-21
FARM NOTES.

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Queens over years Of age are apt
to become barren, and should be SUPER
seeded with those OF greater Vigor and
more fecundity.
II you have not heretofore cut your
hay and fodder, by all means buy cut.
ting box. The saving in feeding cut
fodder will surprise you.
| A Colorado man says that he has
made more money by furnishing lambs
to butchers than by anything he has
ever tried before In Colorado.
When vegetables are stored in cellars
they must be kept from fefmentihg, as
they surely will ferment when piled in
large bulk. This may be accomplished
by piling on shelves SO as to allow some
circulation of air among them, or by
packing in barrels.
Do not let your chickens go into win
ter quarters with scaly legs. Treat
them to couple Of applications of sui
phur> and lard, and coal oil the roosts
frequently. scaly legs are not only
unsightly, but fowls cannot do the work
they ought to thus encountered.
Roots should not be fed with straw or
poor hay. as they are too much alike in
composition. Feed the roots with clio
yer or good hay, and give the more
concentrated food with the straw. 1t
requires more skill to be successful in
feeding poor than rich kinds of food.
Given in winter, cooked food-fed
slightly warm, as it is pretty sure to be
lis eaten more rapidly and does more
good than that uncooked. Cows in
crease heir yield of milk on it, and all
animals thrive better than previously.
1t is said that 1000 sheep kept on
piece of ground one year will make the
soil capable of yielding grain enough
over and above the capacity of the soil
without the sheep manure-to support
1885 sheep an entire year.
IL uds Uc0u CSttuidtcu Iudt cdbtlc UiS-
ease in the past forty-five years has cost
Great Britain $5o0,000,000. Commits
sioner Colman recommends a cattle
quarantine against all Europe, which
has been the hot-b. ID of diseases Which
afterward afflicted this country.
1t is fact that dogs seldom attack
sheep kept with cattle, unless in the
case of some old rogue, and then only
when the sheep are found at consid-
cradle distance, for the instinct of the
cattle is to attack animals found chas-
ing or worrying other stock near them.
Prevention in all cases of disease,
whether man, beast or fowls, if sue
eessful, removes the J. necessity of
cure, and it therefore becomes more
important and worthy of greater con-
consideration. Prevention is not so
expensive, and involves less labor,
vexation and anxiety.
Geese do not receive as much atten-
ton as they should on farms especially
adapted to the rearing of water fowl.
Besides yielding a regular income in
the way of feathers, they are one of
the most profitable fowls for the mar
ket. Much easier reared than turkeys,
they sell as readily in most seasons at
as good profits.
Prof. Storer says ration of thirty
pounds of pumpkin per COW daily will
increase the flow and improve the
quality of milk. More than this guam
tity should not be given. Pumpkins
are very cheap food, as q couple of
tons can be grown to the acre with the
corn crop. The seeds of the pumpkin
ought to be removed before feeding.
A pig that, while eating, takes its
head out of the trough and acts as if
the slop had run the wrong way has
the sniffies. He should be removed
from the herd and cared for, as the
disease is contagious. Put pine tar in
the slops and smear both the nose
and face with it. Feed sulphur and
turpentine. A free use of carbolic acid
both externally and internally, should
also be made.
1t is safe to assert that not half of
the farmers of the country have an as
paragus bed in the home garden, and
it Is equally safe to say that no piece
of ground on the farm win pay as well
if properly cared for as a good bed of
this delicious vegetable. 1t is but lit
tie trouble to care for, and it furnishes |
a supply of delicious green food at a
time OF year when such food is most
desirable.
A western dairyman has hit upon a |
very simple plan for warming water
for his stock to drink in winter, says |
the Michigan Farmer. He put an iron |
plate, say eighteen inches square, on
the bottom of his water tank. cutting
away the wood, of course, where the |
iron was. Under this plate he used an |
oil stove. He says 10 cents worth of
oil day would warm the water for |
sixty COWS up to 10 or more.
Mistook His Meaning.
Butcher Ito Bridget)-This bill has
been running for a long time, and you |
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